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Qantas grounded its Airbus A380 fleet Thursday, after one of its double-decker airliners suffered an uncontained engine failure, shooting flames and ejecting large metal chunks before making a safe emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard. …

Airbus has joined the wings and main fuselage of the first A380 for China Southern Airlines and towed it to a systems installation bay, where it will receive its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines, auxiliary power unit, avionics and other systems, Airbus announced Thursday. …

Airbus’ A380 landed Friday for the first time at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport, the 120th airport to accommodate the super-jumbo jet. …

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